Joanna warms herself with a cup of hot coffee and enjoys the morning sun
Category: Nude
feel good
Katharina on a cold December day
Blog post by Photographer ray gray / 03.05.2025 19:18
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Tischgespräche
First Shooting – Frau Katzenblum
Today, I'm starting a little blog series showcasing the pictures created in collaboration with several models over the last four years. I think a certain learning curve should be visible when looking at the pictures from the beginning until today.
The Beginning
November 2021 – A home shooting with Frau Katzenblum. Her ideas for outfits and settings, her professionalism, creativity, and her pleasant manner – all of it made it totally easy for me. Back then, I was still using my Canon EOS 80D and only had a small selection of lenses. Nevertheless, we managed to get some quite good pictures.
I didn't edit the photos very extensively – I mainly adjusted light and color – and that's exactly what, for me, still constitutes the charm of these images today.
Without Frau Katzenblum, this wouldn't have been possible, and I might have never overcome the doubts about my ability to take good pictures. I am very grateful to her for that.
Teilnehmer: Model Frau Katzenblum
Studien in Schwarzweiss
Stehen, Sitzen, Kriechen, Ruhen, Warten.
Runarkona zeigt viele Aspekte, viele Ausdrücke.
Sie macht dies in monochrome.
Danke.
TRAINRIDE
Wenn der Lichtstrahl kommt…
Kleine Lichter bringen Hoffnung ins Leben.
Große können blenden.
Beide vermögen Orientierung zu geben,
oder ihre Schatten stiften Verwirrung.
Bleibt der Schatten jedoch allein,
fehlt das Licht, so fehlt die Orientierung.
Der Weg scheint versperrt, ungangbar.
Fleur in Fünfhausen
Im Sommer letzten Jahres durfte ich Fleur in der Fotolocation Fünfhausen fotografieren
In The Elemental
Pain occupies a unique place in human life. A thing to be avoided and a thing mythic in its nature to overcome. A thing to be nurtured in our hearts and that drives some of humanity's greatest accomplishments. The broken heart or an isolated soul suffers constantly.
In conversation with a pair of artist friends, welcomed into their studio and enjoying the muted light of a rainy afternoon, I mentioned that I held some pride at navigating a painful situation as best one could and one of my friends observed that an aversion to pain was often more dominant as we age. I am unsure that such is truly the case.
So many friends suffer the slings and arrows of age with dignity or resignation. And I know a good number who still retain a sense of adventure, particularly in romance, despite the possibility of pain. My own thought is that when some possibility presents itself one should simply go wholeheartedly and do the best you can. Make no mistake, the red flags are not a parade in your honor, crimson banners that wind and beckon. There was at one time a restaurant in Seattle called The Doghouse who featured an inspired drawing on their placemats of all the ways a person could wind up in the proverbial doghouse. An appreciable percentage were redheads.